Steven Boyett

Steven R. Boyett, also known as DJ Steve Boyett, is a writer and disc jockey based in Northern California. Quotes Ariel (1983) All page numbers from the second mass market paperback edition published by Ace 978-0-441-01794-2 (First printing; 2009) You had to be a virgin to touch a unicorn...A flush crept up my neck. Okay, so I’d touched her. Being a virgin had some advantages after all. Hooray. Chapter 1 (p. 9) Change implies cause, and cause implies source. Things don’t just happen. Chapter 5 (p. 47) “‘Different laws of physics,’” said Ariel, “and ‘supernatural’ seem synonymous to me.” Chapter 5 (p. 47) A difference which makes no difference is no difference. Chapter 5 (p. 47) “But we’ve got to be quiet. Understand?”“I know how to be quiet. Even girls can do it, under pressure.” Chapter 7 (p. 63) Innocence is in many ways ignorance. Chapter 8 (p. 81) Nothing’s worth living for if there aren’t things you think are worth dying for. Chapter 11 (p. 127) The end of the world turned out to be something I preferred to fantasize about rather than experience. Chapter 13 (p. 166) Don’t go looking for adventure; you might find it. Chapter 14 (p. 194) “The National Hot Air Museum is just down the road a piece,” he added. “Better known by its branch names: the Capitol and the White House.” Chapter 21 (p. 311) Life goes on, yes, and our capacity for self-deception accompanies it. Chapter 24 (p. 388) Tip: utopian and floral town names are inversely proportional to their hellholishness. Afterword (p. 394) The Boyett Style Guide: (a) anything worth doing is worth overdoing (I can’t write a check if it isn’t in iambic pentameter); (b) anything worth saying is worth saying three times; (c) leave no literary stone unturned; (d) fill all cracks, paint all surfaces, and illuminate all dark corners; and (e) whenever two or more metaphors are suitable, use them all. I never metaphor I didn’t like. Afterword (p. 399) Language is a biggie, too. I utterly loathe fantasy novels in which characters stride thusly up yon hill. Walk up the damned thing, for the love of god. This Renaissance Faire lily-gilding has damaged the veracity of contemporary fantasy more than any single quality I can think of (though arguably the inability of many fantasy [and science fiction] writers to have the perspective to see how often they engage in what Freud called “projection” may be an equal culprit in the self-ghettoization of fantasy and science fiction as literary forms). Afterword (pp. 402-403) I don’t think I believe Evil exists. I believe selfishness does. Afterword (p. 410) External links Category:Fantasy authors Category:Science fiction authors Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Short story writers from the United States Category:1960 births Category:Living people Category:People from Atlanta